TY - BOOK AU - Tomlin,Liz TI - Acts and apparitions: discourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990-2010 SN - 9781526130747 (e-book) AV - PN2039 .T66 2013eb PY - 2013/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Theater KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Realism KW - Theater and philosophy KW - Authors and theater KW - fast KW - Theatertheorie KW - gnd KW - Auffuhrungspraxis KW - Performativitat KW - Performing Arts KW - ukslc KW - Theatre direction & production KW - thema KW - Theatre studies KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web N2 - 'Acts and Apparitions' examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority; Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s to the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority. This book departs significantly from existing scholarship on contemporary performance in its rejection of the dramatic/postdramatic binary and its interrogation of previous applications of Derridean poststructuralism to theatrical representation and notions of the real. It offers new perspectives on the political analysis of contemporary theatre and performance across a wide range of models from Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, to Roland Schimmelpfennig and Howard Barker; from verbatim theatre to audio tours and the interactive performances of Ontroerend Goed UR - https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestLondon&isbn=9781526130747 ER -